Thursday, July 25, 2013

Is he 'only' anti-Israel?

We hear constantly repeated claims that the BDS'ers are 'only' anti-Israel and that they're really not anti-Semites, as if there's a difference between the two. Now, here's proof that at least one prominent BDS'er is an anti-Semite. It happened in Belgium on July 18.

“I came to the concert because I really like his music, without any
connection to his political stance toward Israel,” Alon Onfus Asif, an
Israeli living in Belgium told Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot.
“And I had a lot of fun, until I noticed the Star of David, on the
inflatable pig. That was the only religious-national symbol which
appeared among other symbols for fascism, dictatorships and oppression
of people. Waters crossed the line and gave expression to an
anti-Semitic message, beyond all his messages of anti-militancy.”

Next to the Star of
David, on the wild pig balloon, there was also a sign of oil
conglomerate Shell, and a graffiti message stating, “Everything will be
okay, just keep consuming,” and “What’s wrong with people?”

The pig’s hind quarters appear to feature a silhouette of a man giving a Nazi salute.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is outraged.

“With this disgusting display Roger Waters has made it crystal clear.
Forget Israel, never mind ‘limited boycotts promoting Middle East
Peace.’ Waters is an open hater of Jews,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
Associate Dean of the center in an email to The Algemeiner.

“The video is beyond shocking. The only books this bigot should be
getting should be with the Mullahs in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood,”
Cooper added.

But the Anti-Defamation League doesn't even think it's anti-Semitic.

Another Jewish watchdog, the Anti Defamation League which criticized Waters in 2010
for “using imagery long associated with stereotypes about Jews and
money as part of a segment of his 2010-2011 ‘The Wall Live’ Tour,” said
that Waters’ pig was old news and in context was not anti-Semitic.

“This is the same thing he’s been doing for years,” said Todd
Gutnick, Director of Media Relations. “We believe there’s no
anti-Semitic intent here in the use of the Star of David symbol.”

No anti-Semitic intent? None? Abe Foxman must be on vacation this week.

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